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| Feature article on Mossy Oak E-newsletter |
When is the last time a duck hunter in the Southern states muttered aloud that the ducks had short-stopped their location? Topics as to why the ducks fail to continue on and visit the lower flyway includes that more impoundments with food are available further north and that it doesn’t get as cold anymore. After some research and new technology, it turns out that a genetic marker that wills these birds to migrate could be diluted due to the influx of game farm mallard DNA. When game farm birds are released some survive to breed with wild ducks. In the last several years, an explosion of DNA data is leading researchers and generations of duck hunters to compelling new philosophies about what comes next.
To read the entire feature article on Duck DNA click on Mossy Oak Gamekeepers.
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